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26 Ill. 279

Evans v. Edwards

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1861

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1861-04-15

This was an action of debt brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error, and Almon J. Lounsbury, to the December term, 1857, of the County Court of Livingston county. Summons served on Edwards ; Lounsbury not served. The declaration is in the words and figures following, to wit: STATE OE ILLINOIS, 1 In the Comity Court thereof, of the December Livingston county. j ' Term, A. D. 1857.

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Decided 1861-04-15

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Caton, C. J.

¶1The declaration in this case is on a penal bond, and is unobjectionable in every particular. The court below, in what purports to be a bill of exceptions, informs this court that the demurrer was sustained because the declaration does not aver that the bond was entered into upon a sufficient consideration. The seal imports a consideration, and it was unnecessary to aver any other. The judgment will be reversed, and the cause remanded, with instructions to the County Court to enter judgment for the plaintiff on the demurrer, and to take an inquest of the plaintiff’s damages, and to award execution in proper form.

¶2Judgment reversed.

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